Dell Dimension 2350 - +12V rail at 11.74V

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:18 am

I'm working on an older Dell machine and it's having problems... The owner brought it over and said it was not turning on, but when I plugged it in, I had no problems with it getting into windows on the first try.

I checked out the voltage rails just for fun and it gets down to 11.74V while booting - is this common for the older Dell's? The system is a Dell Dimension 2350 with a P4, 20GB HDD, and 256MB of DDR1 memory.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:55 am

Some of the older Dells I've worked on were like that, and with the (dirty) power we have out here, it can lead to a lot of problems at times

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:21 am

yeah, I told him it's not really worth upgrading as he can get an AMD Sempron 3400+, Vista Home Premium, an 80GB HDD and 512MB for $388 at Dell.